legitimate-penological-justification

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
20-287 Ernest Johnson v. Anne L. Precythe, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-09-04 Denied Relisted (12) alternative-method bucklew-v-precythe constitutional-claim eighth-amendment legitimate-penological-justification method-of-execution penological-justification summary-judgment Whether Bucklew established a categorical rule for dismissing Eighth Amendment method-of-execution claims